I already published two versions of Johann Michael Bach’s prelude to “Allein Gott in het Höh sei Ehr”. (see here and here). The Neumeister Sammlung contains a third version of this piece. The major...
Johann Michael Bach’s prelude to “Der du bist drei in Einigkeit” is a well written four part piece. The tonal development is a bit strange. The piece start with a G major chord and...
The choral “O Herr Gott, Vater in Ewigkeit” is a choral meant for Trinity Sunday. Bach writes a piece in three parts, to emphasize the Trinitarian nature of God. The first part is titles...
Bach’s prelude to “Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, der den Tod überwand” is in style and atmosphere very reminescent to anonymus preludes from Mus Ms 30439. It starts as a solemn fugue on the first...
In the nineteenth century this piece was attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach and included into the catalog “Bachwerkeverzeichnis” as BWV 751. In the Neumeister manuscript it is however ascribed to Johann Michael Bach. Since...
Who is the author of this piece? Bach or Bach? It was considered to be composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, and as such it has a BWV-number. The Neumeister manuscript however ascribes this piece...
Johann Michael Bach wrote two preludes to “Gott hat das Evangelium”. The first prelude is posted here. This second prelude has the chorale melody in the soprano voice. The prelude is constructed with beautiful...
Johann Michael Bach wrote two preludes to “Gott hat das Evangelium”. The first prelude by has the choral melody in octaves in left hand and pedals, a style previously encountered in his prelude to...
The fifth chorale prelude of the Neumeister-Choräle-not-by-Johann-Sebastian is the second prelude of Johann Michael Bach to “Nun freut euch lieben Christen g’mein”. It is a manualiter piece with the choral melody in the soprano...
The fourth chorale prelude of the Neumeister-Choräle-not-by-Johann-Sebastian is again a prelude by Johann Michael Bach. The style of this prelude is employed by Johann Pachelbel as well. The chorale melody is played with the...
The third chorale prelude of the Neumeister-Choräle-not-by-Johann-Sebastian is again a prelude by Johann Michael Bach. It is a short prelude on the melody of “Herr Christ, der einig Gottes Sohn”. The choral melody is...
The second chorale prelude of the Neumeister-Choräle-not-by-Johann-Sebastian is again a prelude by Johann Michael Bach. It is a sort of a triple-prelude: the chorale melody is treated three times: first in the soprano voice,...
The Neumeister Collection is a compilation of 82 chorale preludes which was rediscovered in 1985. It attracted a lot of attention because it contained 39 chorale preludes attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach, 32 of...
Manuscript Mus. Ms. 30439 owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin is an interesting manuscript. It contains five different fascicles, some reasonably preserved, others deteriorated to the point of not being readable anymore. The second...
The last piece of the second fascicle of Mus Ms 30439 was written by Johan Michael Bach. It is a manualiter prelude on “Von Gott will ich nicht lassen” in excellent three part writing....
